Why did God allow David to keep Bathsheba as his wife?
2 Samuel 11:26 - 27
NIV - 26 When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. 27 After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord.
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Shirley H
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Oh! Those Iniquities! David was in covenant with God. In fact, David, in 1 Samuel 16:13, was anointed by Samuel. In 2 Samuel 2:4, the men of Judah anointed David king over Judah. 2 Samuel 5:1-5, David was anointed king of all Israel. In 2 Samuel chapter 7 we see the Davidic covenant. In Psalm 89 we read about David's sorrow. Psalm 32 is titled "The Joy of Forgiveness." In Psalm 38:4 David contemplates his sins iniquity. But God says in Numbers 23:19: "God is not a man, that he should lie... nor a son of man, that He should repent, has He said and He will not do? Or has He spoken and will not make it good?" (Malachi 3:6) In Exodus 34:6,7: "The Lord passed before Moses and proclaimed, ' The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquities and transgressions and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children.'" Remember David and Bathsheba's first son died. Then they were blessed with Solomon. In Acts 2:29-31 we are told David is a prophet. See also Psalm 132:11, 2 Samuel 12:22,23, Genesis 37:35 (Jacob mourning the "death" of Joseph). "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness." (2 Timothy 3:16)
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